The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-02
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

Roscoe ConKnng has a double whose
name is S. S. Rowe, and who halls from
Boston. The resemblance between the
two is described as startling, and natur-
ally leads to many queer mistakes.
There are the same well knit and supple
form, the same luxuriant HAIR and curl,
now turning white at the bidding of the
years, the same beard and confident look
and walk.
One of the most pathetic fatalities re-
Gently reported occurred at Connelville,
Pa. An old lady was killed on the rail-
road track-not an uncommon incident
but she was mother and carrying
flowers to the grave of her dead son
when struck by the locomotive, and
unexpectedly hurried from time into
eternity.
Louisiana enjoys the distinction of be-
ing accredited with the oldest soldier of
the regular army now living, General
William Selby Harvey, one of the most
remarkable men this country has pro-
duced, and who was appointed from
Louisiana to the army IN 1918. He has
attained the age of eighty-seven years,
having been born Aug. 22, 1900.
Sam Jones told an audience at Round
Lake, n. Y: 81 can get along with an
old sinner; can bear patiently with a
poor drunkard; but when church MEM
Der begins to apologize for his meanness
and gets mad because he is told of his
faults, it makes me sick at my stomach"
Prof. o. +. Lumry, of Wheaton Col
lege, has written long letter to the
public explaining why he thinks he
must withdraw from all churches. He
assumes that the churches have an &C.
clesiastical hierarchy, apd destroy the
simplicity of individual liberty.
BY the decision of the General Term
of the Supreme Court of New York, the
property left by John McGraw and
Jennie McGraw Fiske to Cornell Uni
versity Ito the amount of some 81 ,12l,-
COO reverts to the legal heirs, the col
lege already owning property to the linn
it allowed by its charter.
Mr.. Charles Heidsieck, son of the
founder of the great champagne house
and himself now in active head, has
: been spending some time in the wine
producing districts of California. He
will return home in time for the open
ing of the vintage, about Sept. 20.
There is new "fad" among fastidiou'
young men in Chicago who take an oc
casional drink and object to using the
glasses supplied by saloon-keepers t.
/ their customers. They now carry nea
little silver or gold cup, in leathe
case, in their pockets, which they care
fully wipe after using with silk hand
kerchief kept specially for this purpose
Twenty-four medical men sailed TO
, New York from Liverpool, to attend tn,
: International Medical Congress, to as
semble at Washington in September
This will perhaps be one of the larges
conferences of professional men eve
held in any city, and will include repre-
, sentatives from more countries thai
ever met in one body for any purpos
whatever.
The citizens who voted for the frs
time in 1884 were born in 1858; there
, fore, as the Chicago Tribune assumes,
large part of them were sons of stay at
home Democratic fathers. The appear
ance of this class counted for the DemoC
, racy. On the other hand 1883 will wit
ness the first appearance at the polls O
huge number of new voters who wer
born in 1866 and 1867, the two years i'm
mediately following the end of the war
These, of course, are the progeny of tn,
hosts of Union soldiers who returned
North when the great struggle was over
who either married or resumed domes
tic relations interrupted by their enlist
ment. BY force of heridity, they vii
vote the Republican ticket.
w. H. Phelps, seventy-seven years o
age, brother of Minister Phelps, who
represents this country at the court o
st. James, earns his daily bread at Siou,
Fails, d. T., by sewing in tailor shop
He was once a successful writer on the
New York Herald in the days of tn,
the elder Bennett. Mr.. Phelps has Wis
tied every State in the Union, has don,
business In fourteen States and Soutl
America. He is very eccentric, and ha
not spoken to any of the Phelps family
for thirty years. The family is one o
the most noted in Vermont, and thu
Sioux Falls member is college gradu
ate and highly educated.